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(Continued from Page 1) the opposition to the utility’s pending application for a rate increase.
“Some people just won’t work with you,” Flippo said, noting that difficulties with service in Harris Hollow first began last March.
After receiving noise complaints, the utility tested the cable with special radar and found several wet places as well as whole sections with potential trouble spots, the manager reported.
The original cable runs underneath Route 622 and since the highway department won’t allow the pavement to be dug up, the phone company looked at an alternative, Flippo said. Boring under the road was rejected because needed repairs were too extensive. “We knew we had to do something,” Flippo said, so a Centel engineer contacted the Dwner of the roadside property and requested a right-of-way to allow the phone company joint use of existing poles that now carry only power lines.
“Adding our lines would have required no further disturbance of the land; he emphasized.
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But the landowner refused to give her approval, the
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